Colonel Philip Corso Publishes 'The Day After Roswell'

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Philip J. Corso published a book claiming he had overseen a Pentagon programme to seed technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash into American industry, including fibre optics, integrated circuits, and night vision. Corso served on the National Security Council under President Eisenhower and headed the Foreign Technology desk at Army R&D. His claims have never been independently verified and remain highly contested among researchers. The book reached the New York Times bestseller list and brought the concept of reverse-engineering programmes to mainstream attention.